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Originally Posted by Enkidu of Abydos
Now a question on the side, has anyone here read a pure porn book / story (one where sex doesn't serve the plot but the plot serves the sex and the purpose of the book is to arouse rather than entertain in the classic sense) and found themselves carried away by the non-sex plot (such as a fight against crime) and wished that the same author wrote another book only about that and without the sex (even though you started reading it because of the sex) ?
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Actually, I started reading them because the
author ended up on Fandom Wank due to one of those authorial meltdowns and her prose got mockity-mock-mocked so hard I checked the books out from sheer morbid curiosity, but Laurell K. Hamilton's
Merry Gentry series kind of qualifies (though technically, it's not "pure" porn, just heavily erotica-laden fantasy centered around a porn-enabling plot).
I thought she actually had an interesting and different setup for how the modern human world interacted with the courts of Faerie than most authors came up with, and I liked the political maneuvering and would have liked to see much more of those aspects.
But her books were drawn out endlessly by fairly pointless and kind of boring gratuitous extra sex scenes* wherein eventually the action got to the point where a single plot thread would be spread over, like, 3 books while the characters had sex, sex, and more sex instead of wrapping up in the book where that particular plot thread was supposedly the main story focus.
Apparently, her
Anita Blake series which I haven't read went much the same way, according to disappointed former fans, only with the extra frustration of not having been intended as porny-porn-porn-with-occasional-plot to begin with, unlike the
Merry Gentry books, which were kind of always like that and made no pretenses otherwise.
* A few or even a lot would have been fine, since sexual negotiations were a big part of the Faerie cultural interactions†, as long as they didn't slow down what little there was of the plot to a practical standstill, which they ended up doing.
† And they did add somewhat to the depiction of the interpersonal character dynamics, at least in the earlier books.